John Constable

Art Is What You Choose to Frame

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Has This Happened To You? If you go to art museums and galleries you will probably recognize this. You leave the Met, say, and step back out into the world of Fifth Avenue and everything is changed.  This happened to me most memorably leaving the Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney. His urban landscape was … Read more

Song of the Dark Ages

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Song of the Dark Ages We digged our trenches on the down    Beside old barrows, and the wet White chalk we shovelled from below; It lay like drifts of thawing snow    On parados and parapet: Until a pick neither struck flint    Nor split the yielding chalky soil, But only calcined human bone: … Read more